'Full marks' for Tory tax plans

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The Daily Mail awards shadow chancellor George Osborne "full marks" for promising to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m.

"Tax the rich" is not the sort of slogan you would expect from the Tories, says the Times.

The Daily Telegraph praises the plan as "politically well-judged".

"Irresponsible giveaway," rules the Daily Mirror. The Daily Express hails a victory for readers against PM Gordon Brown's "unjust" inheritance tax.

Fan power

The Independent reports that Radiohead have told fans to name their own price for new album, In Rainbows, as long as they pay a 45 pence transaction charge.

The Times says the online payment idea is "remarkably radical" and the Guardian pays tribute to Radiohead's "honesty box experiment".

The move, where fans will pay what they feel appropriate for the product, will be watched by other artists, it adds.

The Daily Mirror is less impressed and asks, "anyone got 46p"?

'Broken leg'

The main story for both the Sun and the Mirror is a car accident involving England footballer Steven Gerrard and a young boy in Birkdale, Merseyside.

Witnesses speak of Jamie Hellawell, 10, dashing into the road before being struck and reportedly breaking his leg in two places.

Gerrard's spokesman tells the papers the star "was driving very slowly when a young boy hit the side of his car".

The Sun says Gerrard held the child's hand until paramedics arrived.

Mysterious poet

The Mail reports on a mystery that has gripped villages across Yorkshire.

Thirteen stone sculptures have been left in various places with notes which read: "Twinkle, twinkle, like a star, does love blaze less from afar?"

The Express publishes a CCTV picture of a man leaving a sculpture on the doorstep of a post office in Rotherham.

The question for villagers, it says, is whether the stone heads are a practical joke, a publicity stunt or something more sinister.